{"id":9699,"date":"2023-10-05T13:51:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/russian-journalist-who-protested-on-live-television-sentenced-to-8-5-years-in-prison-in-absentia\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:51:33","slug":"russian-journalist-who-protested-on-live-television-sentenced-to-8-5-years-in-prison-in-absentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/russian-journalist-who-protested-on-live-television-sentenced-to-8-5-years-in-prison-in-absentia\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian journalist who protested on live television sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian journalist who staged a daring protest against the Ukraine war live on state-run television, has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in absentia by a Russian court.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ovsyannikova was found guilty of \u201cpublic dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,\u201d according to a statement posted by the press service of Moscow\u2019s district court on Telegram Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThis is just fake justice because you know, in Russia, we don\u2019t have independent courts, Putin destroyed all independent courts.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ovsyannikova said relatives in Russia have turned against her, even testifying against her. \u201cThey gave evidence against me in the court, and I was shocked when I read about it.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThey live in another information reality. If you come to Russia, you start thinking in another way. My Russian relatives are thinking that Russia is surrounded by enemies. They believe Putin and they are thinking I\u2019m the traitor.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      She continued that she was \u201cvery worried\u201d about the future of Russia.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cIf I return to Russia I will be immediately in jail. I\u2019m very worried about the future of my country and I want to fight for a better future.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ovsyannikova escaped house arrest with her daughter last year and is now in Paris, according to her assistant.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The 44-year-old journalist shot to international fame last year when, as an editor at Russia\u2019s state-controlled Channel One television station, she stood behind an anchor and held up a sign that read \u201cNo War\u201d during a live broadcast.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian journalist who staged a daring protest against the Ukraine war live on state-run television, has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in absentia by a Russian court. Ovsyannikova was found guilty of \u201cpublic dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}